1. Graphic Novel Cataloging
By Elizabeth Johnson

2. Background SMLS student North View Middle School
Worked with the school media library specialist Anna Teeple
Graphic Novel section needs to be redesigned

3. This is how the Graphic Novel section currently looks:
The graphic novels are shelved according to author’s last name
Students do not like it and it takes them longer to find the type of graphic novel they want to read

4. My first step was to scan all of the graphic novels that were checked in and print a list of them
We had 22 pages worth of books that were currently checked in at the media center

5. This was one of the easier pages to assign subcategories to
For most of them, I could look at the title and cover and deduce what subcategory it should be placed in

6. Here is an example of a page that was a little more difficult
As you can see, I altered subcategories frequently
Action  Legends
How-to  Drawing
Historical  History

7. Another example of a more difficult page
Historical  History
How-to  Drawing
War History
Animals  Fantasy

8. This page was the epitome of my project
I started with the subcategory of “Fantasy” for a series, but discovered it was more a “Supernatural” or “Sci-Fi” series
As I continued onto more pages of books, I discovered that this particular series actually fit more into the “Scary” realm

9. Here is a summary of all of the subcategories that I ended up creating

10. There were some subcategories that were too large and I decided to subdivide once more
Myths = 28
Humor = 52
Action = 34
Supernatural = 23
History = 29

11. My first instinct was to start by using a variation of the notetaking method of “mapping”
I then grouped similar styles of subcategories of “Humor” together and began labeling those additional subcategories
I went through all of the pages of books and whenever I found a book that I had labeled “Humor”, I added that to the map

12. Here is another example of my mapping method
The “History” subcategory was a little easier to subdivide

13. The “Action” subcategory has given me a lot to think about and is still a work in progress

14. When I came across the subcategory “Myths” I struggled quite a bit
I decided the best route to take was to write out each title and do research on the books in order to subdivide “Myths”

15. I did the same process as I did for “Myths” and created 3 subdivisions of “Supernatural”
As you can see I originally had 5 subdivisions but ended up eliminating 2 in the end

16. I want to explain the process of a mapping method

17. However, when the “Historical” section became too large, it was changed to “History”
The flow of
“History”  Events
“History”  People
“History”  War
“History”  Inventions
I originally choose to label books “Historical”

18. An example of “History”  Inventions

19. I had to research each individual book in order to subdivide the “Myths”
I used the Hennepin County Library website and looked at subject headings for each book
Goodreads and Amazon were also good sites to look at
In the end I had subdivided the subcategories into four groups
Relationships
Expeditions/ Journeys
Kings and Rulers
Environmental

20. I then had to go back to my list of the books and each book that was labeled “Myths”, I had to write in the subdivision I created

21. Concluding The nonfiction area in the media center is complete
We are modeling the Graphic Novel section after the Nonfiction area

22. Next Steps:
The last two weeks of school students must have books returned
Once all of the books are back, we will begin changing labels on the books and cataloging them in the system
We will then shelve them accordingly
We hope to have this done before school is out for the summer

23. Thanks for listening!